A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts.

Usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work, and representing a culture, or a stage, in the development of a culture.

Before the Common Era. (before the birth of Christ)

Neolithic site in present day Turkey.

Common Era; the global standard used to count years based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Christ.

The taming & training of plants and animals to be useful to humans.

Remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, such as a skeleton or a footprint.

People who study and write about the past.

Humans that hunt wild animals, or gather edible plants as a way to feed themselves.

Movement from one country, place, or locality to another.

Later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.

A fundamental change in the way people lived, they went from hunting and gathering to agriculture- which led to permanent settlements.

Having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.

A dark natural glass that forms when hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools.

Early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.

The time period before any written records.

An artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic.

Documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand accounts of that event, person, or topic. Secondary sources analyze and interpret Primary Sources.

Staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places.

A group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs, and leader.

The point at which a very significant (important) change occurs.

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S.S. Unit 1 Terms

Term	Definition
Archaeologist	A scientist who studies human history by digging up human remains and artifacts.
Artifact	Usually a simple object such as a tool or ornament showing human work, and representing a culture, or a stage, in the development of a culture.
B.C.E.	Before the Common Era. (before the birth of Christ)
Catal Hoyuk	Neolithic site in present day Turkey.
C.E.	Common Era; the global standard used to count years based on the traditionally reckoned year of the birth of Christ.
Domestication	The taming & training of plants and animals to be useful to humans.
Excavate	To carefully dig up.
Fossil	Remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, such as a skeleton or a footprint.
Historian	People who study and write about the past.
Hunter-Gatherer	Humans that hunt wild animals, or gather edible plants as a way to feed themselves.
Migration	Movement from one country, place, or locality to another.
Neolithic Age	Later part of the Stone Age when people used ground or polished stone weapons and implements.
Neolithic Revolution	A fundamental change in the way people lived, they went from hunting and gathering to agriculture- which led to permanent settlements.
Nomadic	Having no fixed home and moving according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land.
Obsidian	A dark natural glass that forms when hot molten or semifluid rock from a volcano cools.
Paleolithic Age	Early phase of the Stone Age, lasting about 2.5 million years, when primitive stone implements were used.
Prehistory	The time period before any written records.
Primary Source	An artifact, a document, a recording, or other source of information that was created at the time under study. It serves as an original source of information about the topic.
Secondary Source	Documents written after an event has occurred, providing secondhand accounts of that event, person, or topic. Secondary sources analyze and interpret Primary Sources.
Sedentary	Staying or living in one place instead of moving to different places.
Tribal	A group of people that includes many families and relatives who have the same language, customs, and beliefs, and leader.
Turning Point	The point at which a very significant (important) change occurs.

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